I've been running Arch for about nine years now and Pacman has worked brilliantly with it for all that time, so I guess it's the best, at least for an Arch user...

I vote for apt. quickly & easy.

I found that I was agreeing with most comments that were made. Someone said, it would be perverse to change from the package manager that came with the OS, and that about sums it up. Actually one of the wonderful things about Linux is that all the major distro's have a package manager, and I have tried several of them.Each one of them has done the job pretty well if they are maintained properly.The beauty of all this is that it is free, so what is the survey about. To improve any of them, one could try to get an exchange of ideas on working methods and the pro's and con's etc.If it possible, exchange of knowledge is a good way to progress. However, in a world of mainly commercial interests it is difficult to do this.